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So instead he golfed 3 days a week at his courses, and funneled millions of dollars from the taxpayer into his coffers.Trump says it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ for him to keep owning stocks
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday cast his decision to sell off his stock portfolio in June as a major move to minimize his vast conflicts of interest and claimed it was widely known, despite the fact that it was just revealed on Tuesday.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to be owning stocks when I’m making deals for this country that maybe will affect one company positively and one company negatively. So, I just felt it was a conflict,” Trump said in an interview with Matt Lauer on “Today” as he promoted being named as Time’s Person of the Year.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-response-selling-stock-232302
Trump’s insistence on playing at his own properties ― rather than courses on military bases close to the White House, as former President Barack Obama mainly did — has made his outings enormously expensive for American taxpayers. Each trip to Mar-a-Lago costs $3.4 million flying Trump, his staff and the vehicles needed for his motorcade on Air Force One and a number of cargo planes, as well as the expenses incurred by the Coast Guard to patrol both the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to his for-profit resort.
Trump has also made 23 trips to his course in Bedminster, New Jersey, at a cost of $1.1 million each as well as trips to his courses in Palos Verdes, California; Doral, Florida; Turnberry, Scotland; and Doonbeg, Ireland
The SS moved out of trump tower in NYC and into campers because he was raping the govt. for rent.
The Secret Service has moved out of Trump Tower in New York City to a street-level trailer in a dispute with the Trump Organization over a lease.
The federal agency which protects US presidents has been renting office space in the Midtown Manhattan skyscraper since 2015.
But its representatives are baulking at the cost and other unspecified rental terms, reports the Washington Post.